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Etymology
Diminutive of targe.

Pronunciation
IPA: /t�:gɪt/
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Noun
Image:Archery target.jpg|thumb|right|A target used for [[archery.]]
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1. (Armor) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

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#:*1598: These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus. — William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200.

1. (Armor) (Obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.

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#:*1786: The target or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had it's bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in it's breadth. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22.

1. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
2. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
3. surveying The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
4. (Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
5. cricket the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
6. (Language) The tenor of a metaphor.
7. A goal or objective.

#:They have a target to finish the project by November.

Translations
trans-top|A kind of small shield (1)
Finnish: kilpi
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trans-top|A shield resembling the Roman scutum (2)
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trans-top|A butt or mark to shoot at (3)
Croatian: meta f
Czech: ter� m
Danish: mål, skydeskive
Finnish: maali, kohde
French: cible f
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Kurdish: KUchar|��شا�
Serbian: meta f
Slovenian: tar�a f
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ttbc|Spanish: blanco
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Verb
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1. To aim something (especially a weapon) at a target.

Translations

Danish: sigte efter, rette mod
Finnish: tähdätä
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Kurdish: KUchar|��شا��� گرت�
Persian: FAchar|�د� (hadaf)

External links
Wikipedia article on w:shield|shield.

Category:Armor

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